Information & Ethics committee  I do a lot of work with police services and I find them very committed to solving these problems. But one of the things that might be helpful.... If you anemically fund a problem, you're going to get poor results. So, wouldn't it be interesting if you could actually track the num

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question. We were at a conference in Toronto recently with several chiefs, Chief Roxane, from Temagami, for example. We had an in-depth conversation. When we were chatting with them, they were initially very hesitant about working with us. It was funny, because wh

Information & Ethics committee  I'd like to make a little point on that. I think this is far more complex than what is taking place. One of the challenges is that credit bureaus base their information on Canada Post addressing standards. Canada Post doesn’t address on reserve. We have some fundamental issues

Information & Ethics committee  There's very little information on aboriginal communities, particularly first nations. Part of what we're trying to do is research this and gather the data so that we can have better empirical discussions. I doubt any of my colleagues or I could even comment from an aboriginal pe

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have any data on that. We've been looking quite aggressively and in fact we're trying to get a bit of a focus on this. I think part of what has to happen is that there's a culture on reserve, in particular. For example, we talked earlier in my presentation about 80% of ma

Information & Ethics committee  It's not yet, but we have spoken with more than 20 bands. It's a long process. It's expensive, but we believe it's one of the fastest-growing demographics in the country. Ostensibly, there are somewhere between 500,000 and one million individuals who are invisible to the credit b

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. I think land reform, quite frankly—and I mentioned this to the chair earlier—is one of the most exciting things coming down the pipe. The concept of individuals owning, or at least even leasing land.... It would be compliant with subsection 89(1.1), so we're talking ab

Information & Ethics committee  Pardon me. I wasn't sure if you said Russo or Rowe.

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry. Could we go back a little bit there? I was trying to follow.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for having us, I'd also like to recognize my associate, Bob Groves, who may advise me as we progress here, depending on your questions. I'd like to take a little different approach here today as both my colleagues at Equifax and